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THE
HONGKONG TAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1935.
BRAVEST WOMEN No Need To
Be "Broke"
ENGLISH BEAT SCOTTISH, In Tientsin
WHI
IRISH AND WELSH
GIRLS IN 'FEAR' TEST
"HICH part of the British Isles produces the
bravest women?
Judge Crawford, discussing temperament in Bow County Court, declared that Irish girls were not, able to bear so much pain as their more stubborn English sisters.
•
HARD-UP HUBBIES CAN NOW PAWN THEIR WIVES
Tientsin, Aug. 19.
A unique kind of Chinese pawnshop where the master of the house can hock his wife or wives was to-day occupying the attention of
Recently an English girl; an) Irish girl, a Scottish girl, and a registered, a little light on the the police in Tientsin.
scale of the Indlentor leaping Welsh girl were invited to sub-wildly in response. mit to "pain" tests in the psychological laboratory at Uni- versity College. London, to nee if Judge Crawford was right.
The third and fourth tests con- song girl but finds himself un- The four girls are similar intained no element of surprise, able to do so because of financial height, colouring and appearance. They were straightforward in-embarrassment; all he need do They work in the same office; they fictions of physical pain-a pin is place Madame Wang in pawn are all between the ages of sixteen, prick and a hard, squeezing pinch, at one of the several such pawn- and twenty; none of them has ever Here are the results of the tests; shops which recently sprang into experienced suf.
existence in this metropolis on fering or pain.
the Hai Ho.
Suppose, for example, that Wang, the bean-curd Beller. The next test was to strike a needs a few pieces of silver to match and pretend to burn the giri's hair. Again the indientoringle in his pockets or he wants to call upon his favourite sing- leaped in героине.
names
Their were Beryl Young (Eng. land), Elizabeth Murphy (Ire- Eileen Innd).. Bell (Scotland), and Winifred Evans (Wales), Identical tests were made with each one. Mr. J.
*
The amount which he can borrow depends upon such things as Madame's age, beauty, health and disposition.
England Ireland Scotland Wales 1. FEAR OF PAIN:
"Will you .. (No fear
scream if I regla-
100
220
200
burn you?" bered.}
Bight of .
match near
the hair..
20
100
100
.90
2. ACTUAL PAIN:
Pin prick..
30
10
RO
100
10
140
45
190
¡ her.
90 360 536
680
She has been well fed and pro-
Hard pinch
Total
T. Raper, who has charge of ex-¡ perimental work in the laboratory, used a psycho-gulvanometer, electric instrument which regis tera emotions such as exellement, pain and fear.
First he rubbed the right hand of his patient with salt and water to facilitate the passing of the electric current into the body.
scream if I have to imrn you i
Thousands
Now Living
{
So Judge Crawford was right.
The lady stays "on the shelf"
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until Wang, once more flush, Ico House Street. perhaps from a fan-tan killing,
calls with the cash to redeem |--
tected so long as Mr. Wang has
paid the interest charges, and is
The English girl registered noreturned in good condition. But emotion whatever when she was if Wang has been careless about naked, "Will you sernam if I burn the interest, his "tai tai" may be you?" Her actual pain registra-returned to him as slightly tion was surprisingly small. damaged goods.
But if the Irish girl is inferior to the English girl in her capacity to bear pain, Ireland is superior to Scotland and Wales.
When Mr. Raper banged his
A Million
Fat Folk
Should Be Dead Are Warned
Wouldn't Be Redeemed
The existence of these unique pawnshops came to the pained attention of police when two of the wives refused to return to their husbands after a month in hock,
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23
34
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
16
Then he slammed the lid of al Outwardly Miss Wales appeared desk to startle her with the first stoje and calm. But the instru shock. This was only A pre-ment showed that she was The Hminary move, like a sighting, most sensitive to pain.
The outraged husbands sought shot at Bisley. Holding a box of matches in his desk the nerves of the Welsh girt police aid to secure justice. The hand, he asked her, "Will you jumped so violently that the in-police raided the establishment dicating light leaped beyond the und found eight wives in pawn jat that one place.. Three others, The fear of the girl was at once scale limit, of the screen!
|the books showed, had not been redeemed by their husbanda and had been loaned out to others. The recalcitrant wives who precipitated the trouble by re- fusing to return to their homes after the principal had been duly and regularly mid, explained that their husbands were narco- tic addiets and frequently beat and starved them. They also feared being sold to "maisons de, tolerance" in Manchukuo.. 12 WOMEN
Police were in a quandary about the charges to be placed 11 No food for a strong man with San Francisco, Aug. 4.
the pawnshop pro- regret at heart, live, on the average, to
Twelve women in the against
prietors and others involved. So 12 Very Ilable to notice.
13 Cross-road? the age of sixty-seven yeara neighbourhood of San Fran- far as they can figure, no crime 14 Grus downright in Surrey more than those born twenty cisco have been stricken with was committed by some of the 17 The woman who made America
operators whose stretch from pole to pole. years ago. And 1944 babies temporary blindness during pawnshop can expect to reach an recent months as a result of clientele were of the better class 20 All over when he loses his head.
and paid interest
22 A seaman fuddled with foreign 23 Presume (anagram); average age of sixty-five.
HOW SCIENCE HAS
HELPED US TO
LIVE LONGER
ABIES born this year will
BA
SLIMMING DRUG HAS BLINDED
ACROSS
1 One of the earliest mariners
turns into an open space. Murderers are not usually got up to this. Loan or rise.
payments liqueur. taking a fat-reducing drug regularly. The wives were un-
violated,
was
The question has been put to the Ministry of Justice in Nanking-United Press.
It must be proved.
26 For the mino en scene, make a noise about the closing speech,
27 Of doubtful propriety and dis-
tinctly blue at the end.
28 A permanent finish.
31 Sen 6 Down.
Dr. E. Starr Judd, surgeon of the dinitrophenol group, sullied. No sale was involved 24 The more you alter it, the inbre of the world-famous Mayo Clinic, recently surprised dele- whose use has lately become and no criminal statute gates at the California Medical widespread.
This disclosure is made in the Association with this disclosure, based on the steady increase journal of the American Medical shown by longevity figures. Association, which adds that Most of us can expect to live 'clinical investigations are being six and a half years longer than conducted to determine whether SOVIET RECOGNISED You can't lower this without a people could twenty-five years their blindness was actually due ago, according to Sir Frank to the drug or caused by the Smith, secretary of the Depart- malnutrition of the patients in ment of Scientific and Industrial their quest for stream-lined Research.
figures.
"Tens of thousands of people
brations," he declares, “would
Warning to Fat 1,000,000
31
1 Frozen sheet (two words 3 and
can:
Paris, Aug. 8. 30 Not scored off the bat, Letters were exchanged this 37 A blazer for exampie. afternoon between M. Potemkin. 38 It depends on you whether you mako yourself a minster of this. Soviet Ambassador in Paris, and 39 In Stead's day, had a column to M. Heery, Counsellor to the
himself in the Pall Mall. Belgian Embassy in Paris (in
who saw this year's Jubilee cele Meanwhile, until the inquiry the absence of the Belgian Ambas have been dead if it had not is concluded, Stanford Univer-ador, M. de Galffier d'lIestroy). been for the application of sity Medical School is advising which provide for the early re- knowledge gained in the spheres stout persona
use the sumption of diplomatic relations between Belgium and
Soviet! Russia.
of medicine, engineering and drug.
chemistry.
not to
he
"The increase in the average supplies, better hygiene and in- expectancy of life is not due to creased skill in surgery,' taking better care of ourselves, added. Modern science, in other It is the result of belter water words, is increasing life.
SALESMAN SAM
THIS MOSCOW BUNCH SURE' LOOKS FUNNY, WITH ALL THAT CHIN. DECORATION!
PEMO
"ACSKÍ.“
I'LL SAY! THAT GUY is
THEIR CAPTAIN
From to-day only four countries in Europe still refuse to extend diplomatic recognition to Soviet Russia Portugal, Jugoslavia. Holland, and Switzerland.
Whiskers Are Deceiving
HE'S
AN' WHO'S "THAT HUMAN, THE
SHRUBBERY? COACH,
|GEE,THAT B020
MUST BE THE OWNER. OF TH'
TEAM!
NAW!)
DOWN
2 Avoid being caught,
What I despair of doing with Cotton.
J A nole by way of the hill for the
man who'll take it quickest. Sunrise (anagram).
6 Catherine's become poetical after
cutting up 31 Across.
7
Vegetables for the roof-garden?
* We often ray we have been walt-
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ing for them.
10 Part of a skeleton.
Tel. 24048.
10
15 With a bipod, one of the earlier races becomes neither Christian, Jew or Mohammedan.
16 You can do it to the street with- out incurring a charge of man- slaughter (two words 3 and 4). 18 Not prone to sin. No, not at all
pronel
10
colourless gas.
20 If you meet this unhappy man, you might reasonably reverse him.
21 Out of practice and irritable. 25 Se stingy that, if he lost fifty,
ho'd be wretchedness itself.
26 A 4 Down might almost be in It
(hyphen 8 and 4).
28 Gains weight in Taunton.
29 Anxious to do something,
30 Part of a Shakespeare title. 31 Not fit.
32 Stogo direction.
33 A Derby winner?
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